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J Intellect Dev Disabil
September 2022
Faculty of Human and Social Sciences, UKE - Kore University of Enna, Italy.
Parents of children with special healthcare needs search the Internet to learn about and share health-related information. Indeed, online communities (OCs) often increase knowledge and skills, decreasing feelings of isolation and distress. The current study explored the content and functioning of an Italian OC comprising parents of children with Down Syndrome.
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December 2024
Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, United States.
Over the last ten years, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has organized an annual influenza forecasting challenge with the motivation that accurate probabilistic forecasts could improve situational awareness and yield more effective public health actions. Starting with the 2021/22 influenza season, the forecasting targets for this challenge have been based on hospital admissions reported in the CDC's National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) surveillance system. Reporting of influenza hospital admissions through NHSN began within the last few years, and as such only a limited amount of historical data are available for this target signal.
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December 2024
Institute of Human Genetics, National Institutes of Health, University of the Philippines Manila.
Background: As social media continue to grow as popular and convenient tools for acquiring and disseminating health information, the need to investigate its utilization by laypersons encountering common medical issues becomes increasingly essential.
Objectives: This study aimed to analyze the content posted in Facebook groups for Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency and how these engage the members of the group.
Methods: This study employed an inductive content analysis of user-posted content in both public and private Facebook groups catering specifically to G6PD deficiency.
R Soc Open Sci
January 2025
Mathematics Application Consortium for Science and Industry (MACSI), University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland.
The analysis of social networks enables the understanding of social interactions, polarization of ideas and the spread of information, and therefore plays an important role in society. We use Twitter data-as it is a popular venue for the expression of opinion and dissemination of information-to identify opposing sides of a debate and, importantly, to observe how information spreads between these groups in our current polarized climate. To achieve this, we collected over 688 000 tweets from the Irish Abortion Referendum of 2018 to build a conversation network from users' mentions with sentiment-based homophily.
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January 2025
Department of Business Administration, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet, 3114, Bangladesh.
The research aims to investigate how employees' knowledge-sharing behavior (KSB) is affected by knowledge-sharing attitude (KSA) and knowledge-sharing self-efficacy (KSSE) when knowledge-sharing intention (KSI) is a mediator at IT companies in Bangladesh, using the widely accepted Theory of Planned Behavior as the underlying research framework. This investigation is explanatory in nature which emphasizes on the link among variables and follows quantitative research method. Data was assembled in google form applying convenience sampling from 295 employees working in seven IT companies of Bangladesh.
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